What types of material do you cut the most?

[Evil D]

I'm probably leaving stuff out. With only 10 options I can't list every possible thing like drywall and carpet and such but if enough people actually cut certain things I can always edit the list to include/replace something or just vote Other.

[skeeg11]

Flesh & gristle.

[Evil D]

Flesh & gristle.

Probably falls under food prep but I swapped it out with leather since probably not a lot of people are cutting leather all day and leather kinda falls in with skinning in a way.

[skeeg11]

Most of my folders do outdoor service on fish & game. More fish than game these days, tho.

[ChrisinHove]

Other : household construction/ project work. I will use my pocket knife for trimming timber joints & rebates, opening cartons and bags, removing tips of caulk /mastic tubes, cutting templates etc.

[dsvirsky]

Opening cardboard boxes and breaking down same. Opening food packages. Cutting up my wife's credit card offers.

[JD Spydo]

That truly is a tough one for me David because I encounter a wide range of materials over the course of a year. Overall I guess I would have to say "cardboard" because it seems like I'm always opening packages a lot. And then I mainly use one of my full SE companion folders for that.

That's why I'm a believer in carrying both a PE and a full SE in my daily regimen. Before my recent injury I was volunteering for a couple of places and I was cutting virtually everything you could imagine. And you guessed it in both cases I was the only one there most of the time who had a pocket knife available.

[standy99]

Probably biggest thing is opening boxes and packages at work. Everything from boxes to hessian/burlap sacks. Being a job that requires having to inspect stuff there is always something to open sometimes plastic on machinery and mining gear.

Surprisingly there is rarely anyone with a knife that should be doing the cutting.

(Always have a cheap knife to lend that’s not a )

[cjk]

cheese. lol.

[zuludelta]

Boxes, plastics, and others (rope) for me.

[vivi]

food, no doubt. Spend 50-55 hours a week in the kitchen.

When it comes to pocket knives I'd say packaging. Cardboard, envelopes, plastic straps, tape etc.

[nonstainless]

Mostly cardboard, fruits or wood. I cut much more things than I need to

[z1r]

cheese. lol.

Heck, I don't even use a knife for that one!

[Coastal]

Food, cardboard, paper, plastic, vines/leaves/wood. Maybe this is weird, but I don’t think I cut anything else.

[Ric]

Paper - mostly to check the sharpness

[Surfingringo]

Fish and game. Probably 95%+ of my knife use is cleaning fish. I might spend 20 minutes a day cleaning fish, maybe a minute a day on food prep, and probably less than a minute a week on anything else.

[Monty]

Amazon packing tape

[cjk]

cheese. lol.

Heck, I don't even use a knife for that one!

Yeah, if you need a knife for that, there's probably something wrong.

[z1r]

Paper - mostly to check the sharpness

Lol, that sounds familiar!

Besides the aforementioned mandatory sharpness testing, I use my Hawkbill a lot in the Garden Center. Opening packages, but mostly pruning off broken limbs from plants, deadheading, etc. My K390 Endela gets used a ton in an Office setting, so, opening food items, slicing said food, opening a few items, cutting tape, zip ties, whatever the need may be. My DF2, gets used in polite company, mostly for food and light duty stuff in front of the squeamish!

[SchoonerBum]

Rope varying from tiny to 4-5 inches, depending on where I'm working and what I'm doing. Food prep and small rope when I'm at home, along with some woodwork and fishing and such. About 10% is random stuff like zip ties, packaging, etc.

Don't tell anyone but I actually use scissors for a lot of stuff when I'm at home, and I often carry some small fishing forceps that include a scissor blade.

It seems unlikley to happen but now that I'm thinking about it some Spyderco Salt Scissors would be pretty handy.